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8 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Racism is an excruciatingly uncomfortable topic in agriculture, which is basically 96% white in the racial makeup of American farmers, according to USDA's Census of Agriculture.So farm groups typically "stay in their lanes" when social unrest explodes, such as the protests that began last week after the death of George Floyd. But the...
8 Jun 2020
Believe it or not, now is a great time to hire. The agricultural supply chain has been experiencing a talent shortage for years. The good news to come out of this pandemic is the pool of available talent has expanded, and we need to capitalize on this opportunity.Many talented technicians, operators, managers, engineers and more are being furloughe...
8 Jun 2020
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Any of us can pick up a chart and say "oh, we should have bought here and sold there," but few of us -- maybe none of us -- actually do it in real time. I find the disconnect fascinating between what we should have done and what we actually did because it points out how difficult it is to see events clearly as we tru...
5 Jun 2020
Dan Crummett, Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor Over the past 15 years, Tom, Dan and Ben Griffin have been partnering with conservationists to improve grazing on their two fifth-generation Texas ranches, parlaying brush-control programs into better shortgrass pastures, all the while fighting drought and natural succession of mesquite and cedar...
5 Jun 2020
This article was originally posted at 8:08 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, June 3. It was last updated at 11:26 a.m. CDT on Thursday, June 4.**ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision Wednesday vacating the registrations of three dicamba herbicides, XtendiMax (Bayer), Engenia (BASF) and FeXapan (Corteva). The...